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Nevis Beaches Feature In Caribbean Travel & Life

The April issue of Caribbean Travel & Life Magazine feaures 22 beaches on Saint Kitts and Nevis. The article also highlights local restaurants and hotels. CT&L has always been a great magazine, so I am sure that this issue is …

Charlestown, Nevis
March 19th, 2007

The Starwood hotel brand “W”, comes to Nevis with experience and style that fits into the up-market destination which Nevis has been known for “, – says Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph parry, as he stated in the house of assembly on Thursday, March 16, 2007.

The Starwood, the parent company of “W” will introduce its highly acclaimed, luxurious property, with a 150 ““ room hotel, under an agreement with the Nevis island administration.

When the doors open on January 1st 2010, the hotel will be located in the Pinney’s area, which is in close proximity to the city center of Charlestown.

March 20, 2007
By John Mehaffey
Basseterre, St Kitts,(Reuters)

St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas defended World Cup ticket prices and predicted a sell-out crowd for Saturday’s Group A fixture between champions Australia and South Africa at Warner Park.

Douglas said the minimum price for a ticket was $25 U.S. while the per capita income in the tiny Caribbean nation was $8,000.

Charlestown, Nevis (March 20, 2007)

Works are ongoing for the provision of a local craft display area in Charlestown. Minister of Agriculture the Hon. Robelto Hector made the disclosure on Friday March 16, 2007 at the Gingerland Primary School, at the end of Basketry and Pottery workshops for students hosted by the Cooperatives Division in Nevis.

“Shortly, with some help from the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, and the Cooperatives Division, I am trying to get an area, some of you know it as the old Cemetery, where we can make space available for you [students] or persons in craft to display their crafts. So persons who are a part of that industry to be able to make a dollar as we say, when we have tourists visiting our shores,” he said.

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
March 20 (AP)

Garfield Sobers feels the notoriety he gained for hitting six sixes in an
over may have overshadowed his other achievements and hopes that does not
happen to Herschelle Gibbs.
At a ceremony on Monday to celebrate Gibbs becoming the first to achieve the
feat in an international match, Sobers jokingly suggested it was almost a
curse when he became the first to do it a 1968 first-class match.
“I hope that Herschelle doesn’t suffer the way that I have suffered over
the years, because where ever I have gone people have recognized me as the
man that hit six sixes,” the West Indies great allrounder said. “I have
always wondered if that was the only thing I had done in cricket. I thought
I had done a little bit more than just hit six sixes.

Nevis Beaches Feature In Caribbean Travel & Life

Starwood Hotel Comes To Nevis

St Kitts – Nevis PM Defends Ticket Prices

Local Nevis Craft Display Coming To Charlestown

Sobers Congratulates Gibbs On His Six Sixes